Hi Jason,

If you do want to use an image rather than an entity, you can style it to display inline with a height & width of 1em (or something else to your preference). It scales just fine.

I haven't checked this across many browsers, but it should be widely supported.

Cheers,
Mike


On Monday, November 8, 2004, at 03:56 PM, Steve Winter wrote:


Jason,

I can't offer any suggestion, but I can advise that on XP SP 2, in both
FireFox 0.8 and IE 6.0 ↑ and ↓ both render fine, and seem to
scale okay too...

Cheers
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:42:56 +1100
Subject: [WSG] Up and down arrows using HTML entities

Hi,

I'm setting up a table which will can be sorted by clicking on one of
the headers, and I'd like to display the sort order (ascending or
descending) by drawing a little arrow next to the column name.  I
thought about using an image, but of course it wouldn't scale with the
text.  Is there a good technique for drawing a text arrow in most
browsers, which degrades nicely if it can't be displayed?

I found a page which shows some HTML entity codes, including the
arrows, at
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html

I tried &uarr; and &darr; and they work great in Safari 1.2.1 and
Firefox 0.9.1, but the page says browser support for those entities is
generally very poor.  I don't have a PC nearby to test with, and I
have no idea what a screen reader would do.

Am I out of luck?

Thanks,

--
Jason Anderson
http://www.thenewjhp.com
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